Posted on 01.12.2021 09:17
Nature of equanimity:Equanimity may be defined in different ways. However in the present context, by equanimity is meant ‘control over memory and restrained imagination’. Useless memories and wild imagination can only be productive of sorrow. Since they are not related to his needs, they cause a lot of trouble to man.
Memory and imagination are caused by conflict in the mind, because man is caught in conflicting desires. As long as man abides wholly in himself, he is not tormented by any memory or imagination. Profit and loss, joy and sorrow, life and death, praise and blame, flattery and insult —in the context of these opposites, the doctrine of imagination control assumes great significance. Whether in profit or in loss, a man is assailed by imaginary concepts. But a fact, an actual occurrence, is not an idea; it is simply a fact. It is only when memory and imagination operate upon the fact that concepts arise.
This truth is also confirmed by another observation: if material goods could remove man’s fear, the rich people and the public leaders would never experience anguish, as also brought out in a couplet in Preksha-Sangan:
If power, wealth, prosperity
could terror dissolve,
The chieftains and the rich
would never suffer despair!
~Acharya Mahapragya
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